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Bydureon exenatide or Byetta exenatide are novel GLP-1 (Glucagon-like Peptide-1) incretin mimetic hormone FDA approved for use in type 2 diabetes treatment. Byetta (exenatide) and Bydureon (exenatide) are used in combination therapy to improve blood glucose control in people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes who are taking sulfonylureas, a metformin, a thiazolidinediones (TZDs), a combination of metformin and thiazolidinediones, or a combination of sulfonylureas and metformin.

Sulfonylureas medications for Type 2 diabetes treatment were first type two medications marketed in 1957 for type 2 diabetes treatment. The first generation sulfonylureas which are tolinase, diabinese, and orinase, can improve hyperglycemia but potential drug interactions resulting in hypoglycemia make these type 2 diabetes medications less attractive than the following second generation of sulfonylureas drugs. Glipizide and glyburide drugs were introduced in 1984, with glimepiride followed in 1996.» Read more